What is recorded here
Half-buried in a drumlin's west crest, Fprt holds a D-shaped platform of grass and rushes, thirty metres long and twenty-six wide. A field bank cuts across its south edge while another curves east to avoid the monument, as if the land itself refused to touch what was already sacred. The small mound at north may be spoil from digging, or a marker left behind when the fort stopped being used. Whatever hands shaped it, they worked quickly and vanished, leaving only a shallow scar and a boundary the living still respect.
Situated at the W-facing crest of a drumlin. This is a grass and rush-covered D-shaped platform (dims 30m NW-SE; 26.5m NE-SW) defined by a slight scarp and truncated by an ENE-WSW field bank at S, but a N-S field bank curves E to avoid the monument NE-E. There is a small grass-covered mound (dims 7m x 6m; H 0.5m) outside the perimeter at N which is probably spoil.
The above description is derived from 'The Archaeological Inventory of County Leitrim' compiled by Michael J. Moore (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2003). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research.
Compiled by: Michael Moore
Date of upload: 23 September 2008
Amended: 6 December, 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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